湖林博物館 所藏 金屬活字本의 現況과 價値

Abstract

Horim Museum is famous as one of a private museum in Korea. A considerable number of collection in the museum is evaluated rare and valuable. But very limited oldbooks were opened to the public such as Tripitaka Koreana and some part of manuscripts. So we tried to investigated entire oldbooks of Horim Museum during my tenure of curator. In this study, we summarized the status of oldbooks printed with the metal type and made of list. and study special feature and value about rare books of Horim collections. Oldbooks printed with metal type are 151 kinds of 489 books. They were published in the Joseon Dynasty. The reseacher found undiscovered Hyangsansamchebeop printed with the first Gapinja-metal type. The book Zizhitongjiamgangmu whose style has two lines of four border in the text, so called SajooSSangbyun was regarded that the publishing year in 1422. But there were publication record of 1428 at the end of the book. Comparative studies should be carried between one line side(SaJudanByen: 사주쌍변) style books of Zizhitongjiamgangmu that about the relationship between the two books and study of first published Zizhitongjiamgangmu with Gyungjaja-metal type. Also new edition of Geunsarok printed with first Gapinja-metaltype was discovered in this study. The cover of this book cover was made of Silver on Indigo Paper manuscript in the Goryeo Dynasty. That has considerable meaning about thinking of Buddhism in the Joseon Dynasty. We hope this study could be helpful on the research of metal type printing.